I will be offering term paper group writing sessions over the break; please let me know if you would be interested in participating by writing me a short email.
For Regional Studies students taking the exam on March 21st, I will be offering a review session March 13th at 2 pm. Meet at my office and bring concrete questions with you that you'd like to have covered.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Regional Studies Übung USA, Homework for Week 14
Thanks for your great contributions on the topic of the inauguration today. I really enjoyed the multifaceted and fruitful discussion.
In preparation for next week, please have a look at this brief timeline of US-Iranian relations: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24316661
And complete the following study questions for Chapter 24: The Clinton Presidency:
1. What were the effects of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and out of what context did it emerge?
2. (pgs. 650-651) Assess Zinn's analysis of the term "big government".
3. (pgs. 660-661) What was Bill Clinton's strategy in the war in Kosovo?
Nixon's "great silent majority" speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ZO-niTg18
Luz Long's letter to Jesse Owens: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2016/08/tell-him-about-his-father.html
Nice clip by NDR on their friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhhmroflsU
Useful dates:
In preparation for next week, please have a look at this brief timeline of US-Iranian relations: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24316661
And complete the following study questions for Chapter 24: The Clinton Presidency:
1. What were the effects of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and out of what context did it emerge?
2. (pgs. 650-651) Assess Zinn's analysis of the term "big government".
3. (pgs. 660-661) What was Bill Clinton's strategy in the war in Kosovo?
Nixon's "great silent majority" speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4ZO-niTg18
Luz Long's letter to Jesse Owens: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2016/08/tell-him-about-his-father.html
Nice clip by NDR on their friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DhhmroflsU
Useful dates:
•
Reconstruction ends in 1877
–
1865: „40 acres and a mule“
– contentious 1876 election
Hayes (Republicans) vs. Samuel Tilden (Democrats)
– Electoral Count Act of 1877:
special recount committee established
– Compromise of 1877: Democrats accept Tilden‘s
defeat, complete withdrawal of federal troops from South
–
Post-1877: rise of Jim Crow
Civil
Rights Act (1960, Eisenhower): penalties for those who obstruct another‘s right
to vote
Civil
Rights Act (1964, Lyndon B. Johnson): outlaws discrimination based on race,
color, religion, sex, national origin
Voting
Rights Act (1965, LBJ): outlaws discriminatory practices such as literacy test
• 1964:
Gulf of Tonkin and escalation
• Late
Jan. 1968: Tet Offensive
•
March
1968: Johnson announces he will not seek reelection
•
July
1968: Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed
• 1968:
My Lai massacre
• 1969:
Nixon delivers “silent
majority” speech
•
1969-1972:
draft lottery for men registered with selective service
April 1971:
Vietnam Veterans Against the War March on Washington
June 1972:
Watergate break-in
December
1972: peace talks between US and North Vietnam fail
1973: Roe
vs. Wade
August
1974: Nixon resigns
April 30,
1975: NVA tanks enter Presidential Palace Gate in Saigon ending war
1970: first
“Earth Day”, Nixon establishes EPA
1972:
Apollo 17 full view photograph of Earth from space; EPA bans DDT
1980:
Superfund program established by Congress to clean up toxic waste sites
1984: Green
Party of United States founded
1987: US
signs Montreal Protocol
1997: Kyoto
Protocol, US agrees to reduce emissions by 7%
2005: Kyoto
Protocol is ratified by 141 nations, but not US
2006: Al
Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
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